Re: [TLS] The future of external PSK in TLS 1.3

Carrick Bartle <cbartle891@icloud.com> Mon, 21 September 2020 16:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] The future of external PSK in TLS 1.3
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> Can you justify your reasoning? 

Which part?


> On Sep 21, 2020, at 2:22 AM, Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Carrick, 
>  
> Can you justify your reasoning? 
>  
> The challenge I have with the work on IoT in the IETF that the preferences for pretty much everything changes on a regular basis.
>  
> I don’t see a problem that requires a change. In fact, I have just posted a mail to the UTA list that gives an overview of the implementation status of embedded TLS stacks and PSK-based ciphersuites are widely implemented.  
>  
> Ciao
> Hannes
>  
> From: TLS <tls-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Carrick Bartle
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 5:31 AM
> To: Filippo Valsorda <filippo@ml.filippo.io>
> Cc: tls@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [TLS] The future of external PSK in TLS 1.3
>  
> I'm also fine with marking psk_ke as not recommended to be consistent with the non-PFS ciphers, but there are plenty of valid use cases that justify keeping dhe_psk_ke as recommended for external PSKs. Several of these use cases are detailed in draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-guidance-00.
>  
>  
>  
> On Sep 19, 2020, at 9:00 AM, Filippo Valsorda <filippo@ml.filippo.io <mailto:filippo@ml.filippo.io>> wrote:
>  
> 2020-09-19 13:48 GMT+02:00 Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz <mailto:pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>>:
> John Mattsson <john.mattsson=40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org <mailto:40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org>> writes:
>  
> >Looking at the IANA TLS registry, I am surprised to see that psk_dhe_ke and
> >especially psk_ke are both marked as RECOMMENDED. If used in the initial
> >handshake, both modes have severe privacy problems,
>  
> PSK is used a fair bit in SCADA.  There are no privacy problems there.  So
> just because there's a concern for one specific environment doesn't mean it
> should be banned for any use.  In particular, I think if a specific industry
> has a particular concern, they should profile it for use in that industry but
> not require that everyone else change their behaviour.
>  
> Indeed, if the SCADA industry has a particular need, they should profile TLS for use in that industry, and not require we change the recommendation for the open Internet.
>  
> Setting Recommended to N is not "banning" anything, it's saying it "has not been through the IETF consensus process, has limited applicability, or is intended only for specific use cases". SCADA sounds like a pretty specific use case.
>  
> I don't have a strong opinion on psk_dhe_ke, but I see no reason psk_ke wouldn't be marked N like all suites lacking PFS.
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